Events for November 5, 2024 - November 5, 2024

Downtown Toms River is celebrating the start of Spring on Saturday, April 9th from 1pm-8pm.  Join our downtown businesses, for a fun day of food, drinks, music, and vendors!  Washington Street will be closed between Main St. and Robbins St.  So head downtown and lets welcome in the longer days and warmer weather!    

TRAC & Ocean County Family Support Organization, Inc will be hosting 2 "Painted Quilt" classes. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we will be painting a "quilt"  The children will paint a mask of how they feel about themselves and the parents will paint about how they feel about their children.  At the end the paintings we will attached all the painting together and hang it as a quilt. For more info go to www.oceanfso.org  

Patriotic Response to WWII POW Families Time travel back to the 1940s with Ocean County author Ronald E. Negra as he captures the upheaval and anxiety of families affected by World War II: debate over volunteering to serve, familial ties being temporarily severed as enlistees leave for foreign shores, and the interminable agony of awaiting word about loved ones who have been captured or presumed lost. Join Ocean County Historical Society in its hybrid (in person and Zoom) presentation on Sunday, April 24, 2022, at 2:00 P.M. Sharing the presentation with Ron are his mother, Agnes Joan Negra, now 102 and a 46 year-long resident of Forked River, who devised a way to help the POW families with her own patriotic endeavor. Learn about Agnes’ dedicated service in Ron’s book, Waves of Hope, which Ron and his wife, Valerie, will have available for purchase. Ron and Agnes have been highlighted in the Asbury Park Press, on CBS News (NY) and News 12NJ. If you wish to attend the presentation in-person at the OCHS Museum, 26 Hadley Avenue, Toms River, NJ please be aware that the audience is limited to 50 persons. Attendees will be checked for vaccination cards and photo [...]

Before You Can Say Jackie Robinson…. Put a star on your calendar for May 1st at 2:00 PM and sign up for a fascinating program at the Ocean County Historical Society, 26 Hadley Ave., Toms River, NJ. Presenting Black Baseball in America in the Era of the Color Line, Dr. Lawrence Hogan, Professor Emeritus of History at Union County College in NJ, will demonstrate why he has been described as a “national treasure” by the official Historian of Major League Baseball, John Thorn. Author of The Forgotten History of African American Baseball, Dr. Hogan will be accompanied by poet, playwright and performer Kevin Kane who will perform his poem, “Breaking the Line with the Mudville Nine.” To register for in-person (audience limited to 50) or Zoom, email us at: oceancountyhistory.zoom @gmail.com stating: 1) your name and May 1st; 2) your zip code; 3) the email address we should use to send you instructions for accessing the Zoom program or to confirm your in-person reservation. Masks are optional. No refreshments will be served. No entry fee.

Gourmet Food Trucks, arts and crafts vendors and live music throughout the day!   Potential vendors contact The Toms River Township Recreation Dept., 732-341-1000 x8415.